Em's Art Dump

Yo! I'm Em, from Chile. I make stuff sometimes in weird programs and dump it here. Don't expect high quality, I'm still learning and it's for fun

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Reference Sheets (Pt. 2) - Broken Diamond Extras

So we had the first set of sheets for José and May, now let's take a look at our current Antagonists, Leonard and Laxley!

Not much to say here that isn't already in there, though I did notice that Laxley has a bit of an 'Ozzy Osbourne' vibe with the long hair, which I find interesting.

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Reference Sheets (Pt.1) - Broken Diamond Extras I've been meaning to do this for a while, both to learn how to properly make one of these and also because it's useful for generally having a good idea of how to portray a character in the long term. Reference Sheets for Mr. and Mrs. Dorkus~ Not much to say here since the random facts covers some stuff already, that said, I will add one thing that's not covered in there: Mixing these two up was entirely an accident of chance, I had to pick a model to put with Jose in what was the first proto-attempt at the comic, with me not even thinking of there being a relationship in the mix, and since I had used May in a piece ages ago to test how he looked with other characters on the scene, I went for her. The two visually clicked well enough I decided to just deepen it. Nowadays I have a hard time envisioning them with anyone else.

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A silly little thing I made after the owner of Chance, @heroponazrion, sugguested a pic of him as Benny. I posted this late last night on Bsky but I figured I should go ahead and post here too

This is dangerously teethering on becoming it's own proper AU, but I will let it be before I end up setting up yet another NV Playthrough. It was a lot of fun though and a good distraction from story work, which I'm starting again today. Gonna be a bit since I have to make some generic bad guys for May to beat up and make some extra changes before continuing

It'll be worth it!

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The Algorithm (tm) has decided that since I did a whole two FNV posts I must get ALL THE FNV POSSIBLE ON MY TIMELINE

I'm okay with this but dang that worked fast

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Follow up to the last post. No furries in New Vegas (Boo) so I used the old model of Human José I made for April Fools to make a human version. Had to re-do the entire pose 'cause the original got corrupted, so I played with it and changed a few details.

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Listening to music when you have an art program available is dangerous. I listened to a song that made me think of New Vegas, which led me to make outfits inspired by New Vegas for both May and José. I went for something far more Courier coded for her, while José is more Companion-esque. He kinda looks like Rose Cassidy almost. Details that aren't noticeable at first glance: The backpack has a Veteran of the UK armed forces pin and the gun inside the holster is a Webley. It wouldn't be impossible for British Forces to sneak their way into the US during the great war or after it, so maybe he worked for those forces as they'd have to hire the local population before long . Since in regular time he worked with Leo who is a British Veteran, this would be the equivalent here.

In May's case, she's former scout for 1st Recon. Got dissilusioned after hearing what happened at Bitter Springs and began doing her own thing as a Courier. After surviving so much nonsense including getting shot in the head by Benny, lady feels practically invincible which has led to her being a bit more sassy and forward with what she thinks, including the fact she's no longer a fan of the NCR in their current state. She'll happily take their cash for jobs but she'd more than likely lean towards a Free Vegas ending. Also *unreasonably chipper* considering her state.

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Issue 8 - Something Missing This one's been cooking for a while and I promised myself I wouldn't post much publicly until I got it done. And bam! It's here now! First test of me doing some more paneling work, please forgive any of the weirdness on it. I had to play around a lot with the camera angles on this one because I didn't want to put the train on the right on much focus since I can't actually move it. That said, I feel like now it feels like it actually arrives and waits there. I'd like to imagine Nueva Esperanza's trains are an automated system and it's late enough in the area there was no one to worry about. If you've ever been to more outskirts part of places that run trains, you know the feeling of empty 10 PM trains. Spooky but also weirdly nice to have some alone time sometimes.

Leo's implied to be watching through a camera system with his phone, though I perhaps could have made that a little clearer. Still, it doesn't feel like it's too immersion breaking since it can be accounted for in just, tech being what it is. I think it's time to post Leo's profile soon. I'm also going to update the old profiles for José and May since I feel I have a far better grasp now on powers, limitations and story in general. I'll leave the old ones up though for the sake of archiving.

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Broken Diamond Extras - 'Why do you talk like that?'

I'm still figuring out Issue 8 stuff, mostly appropiate maps and props. In the meantime, I had this idea at, no joke, 2 AM, and just had to get it out of it.

I ended up going to bed at 4 AM.

I'm well aware José's way of speaking is a little exagerated, but I've also met more than enough people who speak both languages, myself included, that do this kind of thing on the regular, so your mileage may vary. (Besides, I won't lie, it's fun to write)

I figured it'd be a good idea to explore the reason why he speaks like that in his case though, especially because it opens up a door to talk about his parents more organically (Surprise! I've had their models for months now :P)

And hey, look at that, Leonard is for once not being a bad influence! There's at least *some* decency left in him.

We'll eventually get to see the moment the break happens between these two but for now, enjoy them actually having a proper positive rapport

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Broken Diamond Extras - Cleaning up the mess

Working on Issue 8 and figuring out details, decided to also practice lighting by working on an action pose in the meantime until I have a solid enough idea for it.

I figured it'd be neat to do an action pose with Leo in particular, recreating a picture from John Wick. I focused on capturing the vibes, more than doing a 1 to 1 copy of the original production image

I didn't have any kind of map that'd fit, so I used items to create a room that'd fit the pose, and then did multiple shots with different lighting that I then merged using masks to create the effect of the blue vs red lights. I feel pretty proud of how it came out!

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Another silly thing I did with the Fantasy AU outfit. I was reminded of that one chinese dance tiktok trend from a while back and figured it'd be a good chance to show off some differences between regular José and Fantasy José.

One of these two dorks actually trains his flexibility, the other eats shit 5 seconds after the pic's taken!

I tried to copy the look of the pose itself as well as I could, and I think I managed it *relatively well*

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The dangers of Koikatsu is that thanks to the speed with which you can make stuff, you'll end up with new outfits all the time for your blorbos and it will inevitably make your brain go into hyperdrive and make up stories and what not.

Anyhow fantasy AU because I can and I liked these outfits. I think the Monk and Wizard style fit them both pretty well all things considered

Local Human Wizard attempts to teach Tabaxi Monk spells. It ends poorly.

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Broken Diamond - Friends in low places

Issue 7

Sorry this one took so long, setting up the bar scene and adding a bunch of characters in the background that would feel natural was a bit of a hazzle. Not just that, but trying to make it seem like a plausibe night at the bar itself. It qualifies for a slow night I'd say, but that works for our story either way.

You didn't think May would just let José's explanation be as is, did you? She's doing her own little investigation into this mess, and will likely find out a lot more than she wanted to.

I think with this one we're finally through the big 'set up' comics needed, so expect things to get a lot more fight-y from this point onwards :D

The characters in the background are mostly my and partners' OCs, just vibing and enjoying a night out, completely unaware of what'll happen in a few minutes.

I went through quite a few revisions of the dialogue here before I showed it to some friends to help me find anything wrong with it. I wanted to make sure the conclusion May comes to is not out of left field. To be fair, it's meant to be her grabbing at *whatever* thread she can find, so it's not a gigantic jump.

In the end the only thing I found wrong after all that was a single mispelled word. I should really learn to doubt myself less. A little skepticism is healthy, but too much is paralyzing. (Not like the edit button doesn't exist if I do need to change something later <_< )

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Broken Diamond Extras - The Cookie Incident

Happy belated 420 folks. If you're still celebrating through the week as some do, remember to do it responsibly and don't steal snacks that smell funky!

I just find the idea that the big cat is a lightweight very funny. If this happened in canon I imagine it'd be during the time period of José getting used to a 'normal' life after Danny helps him leave The Club. Perhaps the most chaotic roomie situation possible.

(The spanish from José reads: "Dude I swear I'm smelling colors")

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mostly messing around with a new brush. armor is fun to stylize!

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Friend art that is very fucking dope. You should check out the rest of her stuff NOW *Points a watergun at you*

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Poster - Broken Diamond Extras

So a friend of mine joked that one of José's outfits made him look like he belonged in a kung fu movie. So I spent some time split between yesterday and today making a fake Kung Fu movie poster in the style of the old 80s and 90s posters.

The names on the credits are either DnD characters of mine or makeshift fake names like the Director. I just wanted to get a feel for a goofy, cheesy movie poster and I think there I did okay.

The pose was about the only thing I did in Koikatsu/CharaStudio. Everything else was done via GIMP 3.0

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Broken Diamond - 'La Prima'

Issue 6

Say hello to Danielle Conti, everyone. Our star hacker and the gal who will hopefully help our dear himbo put two and two together on what the heck's going on.

So! Credits first on this one to the private booth area, because I did not make it! It's a scene made by author Egor that I had to modify to fit (somewhat) the lighting I've been using on all the others. And yes, that is the same Egor that did Scar's model that I based Alexandre off of.

Egor, I don't know who or where you are, but I owe you a pint. Seriously check out his stuff if you're interested in working with Charastudio at all, it's simple but very effective.

I had to do quite a bit of work on Danny on this scene, due to her neck fluff not working quite right with that sitting position. Thankfully the clone tool and some more appropiate posing with the FK/IK tools helped solve most of it. I know it ain't perfect fixes but I'm not going for professional grade here.

I created Danny's model off of a base named, appropiately, Anthro Head Template by Chargin_Chuck. Most of my female anthro models are based off of that starting point. Add him to the pile of folks that I owe a pint and/or their drink of choice.

As for Mike himself, he's simply using the 2nd head mod for the vanilla game, and based off of the normal male model. It took me quite a while to figure out how to make him look sufficiently old, but I eventually realized it'd be best to just let attitude and general dialogue work towards that. Koikatsu and Charastudio unfortunately do not have all the tools needed for good old looks, but they can be made decent enough.

Now to wonder what's May doing during this... :)

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Announcing that I am flipping the species of the characters in my comic. Humans are now furries and vice-versa. Just feels better.

Also check the date if you haven't already :P